I finally got to see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on the satellite.
Ouch. And I like comic book movies... I can't imagine how people who don't share
that taste felt about this one (and I don't want to imagine what Alan Moore must
think). On a happier note, I got to see Hero in the theater the other
day. A good Jet Li movie... who knew? But I still have a vexing movie situation
facing me: I have a free pass to see Alien versus Predator, but it's
actually not playing at the local cineplex(?), meaning to see it I will have to
(gasp) break with my movie routine. That's pretty drastic, we'll just have to
see how that goes.

Level 10 and about 30 skill points to spare (with only 10 additional points tied up in skinning.)

I will say this for WoW; what does right, something that most MMRPGs fail at, is having a single-player story set in an online world.

Certainly, you can group and there are obviously plans to have a more worldy cohesion, but you can also opt to just clear out the quests one by one and you will naturally progress through the areas. This could be an issue in the long-term, you have to keep adding quests for the players, but it does give you soemthing to do and they are not the usual crappy randomly-generated quests.

This is basically how I have played the game, though I will have to start doing a few groupings, and I have now cleared about 70% of my (crappy) continent. Of course, my continent is more like a big island compared to the two main, large continents.

Meanwhile, the lag is a non-issue. I had the HL2 pre-load going the whole time I was playing (now at 98.7% - w00t) and things were perfectly fine.

Having hunted down forty-eight spiders just to get the ten legs :|,Ray